In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face.
That Christianity gives joy and breadth is also a thread that runs through my whole life. Ultimately someone who is always only in opposition could not endure life at all.
For many people today, practical atheism is the normal rule of life...If this attitude becomes a general existential position, then freedom no longer has any standards, then everyting is possible and permissible.
Certainly, it is difficult to make the demands of the Gospel understandable to secularized people. But this pastoral difficulty must not lead to compromises with the truth.
No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the "new religion" as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.
We have Edward Pentin in his "The Case for a Fair, Free and Authentic Synod Debate" arguing that only one side in the debate surrounding the 2015 synod is being shut down.
Distinctions Matter
Distinctions Matter Forward
Missale Romanum
Pre-1951 Calendar